Freight-car, &amp;c.



No. 666,734. Paented 1an. 29, |901. `w. c. CAMPBELL 6. F. M. Hummm-:v

FREIGHT CAR, 81.0.

(Application led Nov. 7, 1899.)

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(Application lnd Non 7, 1899.)

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'ATTORNEY W/TNESSES:

TH: uonms Unirse STATES FATENI erica.

WILLIAM C. CAMPBELL AND FRANCIS M. HUMPHREY, OF PENDLETON, OREGON.

FREIGHT-CAR, ac.

SPECIFICATION forming lpart of Letters Patent No. 666,734. dated January29, 1901.

Application iled November 7, 1899. Serial No. 736,176. (No model.)

T0 all. whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. CAMP- BELL and FRANCIS M. HUMPHREY,citizens of the United States, residing at Pendleton, in the county ofUmatilla and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in freight-cars, wagons, and other vehicles used forcarrying freights of all kinds,

consisting of adjustable deck, platform, or

shelf, one or more, for shipping or transporting cattle, sheep, hogs,and other stock and for poultry, fruit, vegetables of all kinds, and anyother freights, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View of Fig. 1, cut on theline X X. Fig. 3 is a front end view of our invention. Fig. 4t is avertical sectional view on the line Y Y, Fig. l, looking from the front.Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the lever. Fig. 6 is a section of thesprocket-chain. Fig. 7 is a perspective View of one of the arms 17 whenmade telescopic.

Our invention is described as follows:

1 is the bottom of the body of the coach.

2 is the top.

3 represents the corner posts.

4 represents the side posts. Theremay be any number of side posts, thenumber being regulated by the size of the body and the strengthrequired.

5 represents end posts.

6 represents the weather-boarding slats.

The body may be weather-boarded or may be covered with slats, and theseslats or vWeather-boards may run vertically or hori- 4four in number,one at each corner of the body, and they are threaded their entire,length` inside of the body. Just above the threading on these rods arerigidly secured, one on each rod, sprocket-wheels 10. Thesesprocket-Wheels are all the same size and their sprockets or cogs areall the same size and all the same distance from each other. Runningaround the entire body and over these sprocket-Wheels is an endlesssprocket-chain 11, so that When either one of these rods is revolved allthe other three are revolved at the same time and with the same speedand by the same chain. The upperends of these rods 9 are made square,and adapted to tit on eitherone of these rods is a double-handed lever12; but this lever may be single-handed and in any shape provided it isadapted to rotate any one of said rods.

13 represents sprocket-chain guide-tracks consisting of an L.-shapedpiece of Wood or other material, one on each side of the coach, havingtheir lower extensions secured to the inner faces of the side posts 4,their upper parts extending inwardlyv and forming thereby, between saidupper parts and the said posts, tracks for the sprocket-chain to run in.

14 is an adjustable deck, platform, or shelf as long and as Wide as theinnersurface of the body of the coach. There may be only one of theseadjustable decks, or there may be as many as needed for the purpose towhich the coach may be applied. This adjustable deck or these adjustabledecks may be made in any substantial manner and have extending from eachcorner a bearing 15, which extends loetween the corner and end posts.Each one of these bearings'is provided with a threaded opening in whichwork the threaded rods 9, so that when the said rods are turned to theright the adjustable deck is caused thereby IOO coach in relation to thebottom or top thereof and the center braced by arms; but Where thefreight is light the arms may be dispensed with.

Having described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a car-body, consisting of a bottom and top, cornerposts, side posts, and end posts; sockets, onein each corner of thebottom, between the corner posts and end posts; bearings, one in eachcorner of the top, immediately over said sockets;

threaded rods Working in said sockets and' bearings; sprocket-Wheels,one rigidly secured near the upper end of each of said rods;endlesssprocket-chain,worki-ngonsaid sprocket-Wheels and adapted torotate said rods, all at the same time and the same speed; a movabledeck, filling the entire in ner space of the body as to length andWidth; threaded bearings, one secured to each corner of the deck, andextending between the corner and end posts and Working on said threadedrods, said rods adapted to be-rotated by lever or otherwise and to movesaid deck up and down in said body, from bottom to top and from top tobottom; substantially as shown and described and for the purposes setforth.

2. The combination of a car-body, consisting of top, corner posts, Vsideposts and end posts; sockets in each corner of the bottom and betweenthe end and corner posts; bearings in the top im mediately over saidsockets; threaded rods, Working in saidsockets and y bearings;sprocket-Wheels, one rigidly secured near the upper end of each rod;endless sprocket-chain, Working on said sprocketwheels; a chain-guidesecured to the posts of the body and adapted to carry said chain; amovable deck as long and as Wide as the inner surface of the oor;threaded bearings, one secured to each corner of the deck eX-tending-endwise vbetween the end and corner posts, and Working' on thethreaded rods; said threaded rods Aadapted to be rotated by a lever orotherwise., and thus rotate all of the rods at the same time and at thesame speed and move said movable deck up and down in said body,substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

ln testimony whereof We aflx our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

WILLIAM C. CAMPBELL. FRANCIS M. HUMPHREY.

